The area of personal concern of greatest interest to me right now is getting ready for death. This used to be just because I was getting old, but my wife of 50 years died recently, and that has made it all the more urgent to get right about death. I have placed my meditations on her death, which was of the deepest significance for me, at the end of this part of Which Way. In these pages I continue my thinking as before.
I'm thinking we should treat getting ready for death as like getting ready for childbirth. We are all pregnant with death although the periods of gestation vary. And while sooner or later we all witness birth and death, no one can penetrate the mystery of these passages without themselves actually passing through. I hope to train myself to greet the moment of passage like a mother giving birth for the first time —
Doris and our firstborn, Eric, a little after their passage.
My thinking begins with something strange to me about the Five Remembrances of the Buddha.
Click on the painting to the right for my presentation of my dear and lovely wife Doris.
The Fifth Remembrance 1 |
The Fifth Remembrance 2 |
The Fifth Remembrance 3 |
Dr. Block and Isys 1 |
Dr. Block and Isys 2 |
Dr. Taylor and near death 1 |
Doris's Death |
Whose journey? Whose truth? |
Retirement Reading |
Mind-Matter |
Other Minds' Matter |
Occasional Notes |
My Cognitive Dissonances |
Preface on Definition |
Mind-Matter Argument 1 |
Mind-Matter Argument 2 |
Mind-Matter Argument 3 |
Mind and Matter Quick View |
endnote 1 to M-M Arg 1 |
endnote on illusions |
endnote 2 to M-M Arg 1 |
How the Real World Thinks |
Huxley's Argument |
Friend's Argument |
Zerah Colburn |
Mind-Matter Argument 2-1 |
Mind-Matter Argument 2-2 |
Mind-Matter Argument 2-3 |
endnote 5 to M-M Arg 2 |
Three Body Problem |
endnote 1 to M-M Arg 2 |
endnote 2 to M-M Arg 2 |
endnote 3 to M-M Arg 2 |
endnote 4 to M-M Arg 2 |
Sophistry in America |
Chris Carter |
David Chalmers |
Bernard Haisch |
My Mind-Matter Bibliography |
Reading Notes on Chalmers |
Sheldrake Summary |
A suicide, a poem, a song, some thought |
My Little UFO |
Medicine Health Notes |
Plato and associates |
Quantum Mechanics |
EPR-Bell-Aspect |
Vaccination |
Maintaining the People's Faith |
Government |
Does HIV cause AIDS ? |
9-11 |
Whistleblower issues |
Same Study Different Takes |
The Body of Evidence |
Overview |
Public Hygiene |
Polio Vaccine Contamination Issues |
Tetanus Supporting Items |
What Happened to Karen Sykes? |
What Happened to Dr. James McGrogan? |
CSM story of June 21, 2014 |